“But you didn’t use the word, Skeeter,” admonished Lil.
“Then you use it for him,” suggested the questioner. “I take it then if he never saw a teakettle and no one else has ever seen one, that it is some kind of mythological creature. Am I right?” he appealed, following up the advantage Skeeter had given him.
“Yes, a teakettle is a mythological being,” said Lil primly.
“Skeeter can give more things away without using the word than most folks can using it,” declared Lucy cruelly.
“Miss Nan, did I ever see a teakettle that you know of?”
“I have an idea you thought you saw a teakettle once,” drawled Nan.
“‘Wood nymph!’” exclaimed Tom Smith.
Everyone thought he was very clever to have guessed a very difficult and obscure word in five questions.
“Nan’s turn again! That isn’t fair when Skeeter really and truly was the one who got him going. You’ve got to go, Skeeter,” and Frank and Lil and Lucy pounced on their chum and dragged him from the tree.
“Yes, I haven’t! I’d never guess c-a-t. Get somebody else.”